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Frost Mage PvE: Solo Farming ICC Rep

Tuna — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:49:31 +0000

With the latest raid released with Patch 3.3, players will finally get to confront Arthas in the Icecrown Citadel. In the new 10 and 25 man raid, players can earn reputation with the Ashen Verdict faction while killing trash and bosses in the dungeon.

Like some of the previous raid dungeons before (AQ, Kara, and Hyjal), gaining reputation with this faction will award you with a ring which you can upgrade as your rep level increases. Here is what you can get as a Mage:

Friendly – [Ashen Band of Destruction]
Honored – [Ashen Band of Greater Destruction]
Revered – [Ashen Band of Unmatched Destruction]
Exalted – [Ashen Band of Endless Destruction]

Those are some very, very nice rings, and you definitely want to rep up with the Ashen Verdict for it. Join any 10/25 Icecrown Citadel raid you can. If you see players doing ICC rep runs, join them. But what if you aren’t in a raiding guild, and there aren’t any rep runs going on?

Solo Farming ICC Rep

As a Mage, you have a few moves in your arsenal which will allow you to go in and farm some trash by yourself. I wouldn’t recommend you doing this as your only means to getting rep. It is not a very efficient way to get rep.

You can only pull the first two mobs, then you will have to reset the instance and do it again. Remember: You only get 5 resets per hour.

But if you are a few hundred rep away from your next ring upgrade (like I was two days ago), go for it. This method will get you 150 rep per hour (165 if you are human). Not much, but it is better than nothing if you need it.

Step 1: Get into a Raid

You can’t zone into the instance if you aren’t in a raid. If you are in a guild, it’ll be easy to find someone who is just jumping around Ironforge doing absolutely nothing but chatting in gchat. Give them an invite, then convert your group into a raid.

If you don’t want to bother your guildmates by keeping them in your raid, you can do what I do. Ask your guildie to invite one of your alts into a group, and convert it into a raid. Then log onto your main, and have him invite this character into the raid. Then have him pass you the “leader”, then you can boot him from the raid.

Now you will be in a raid with just you, and your “disconnected” alt. Then you can do all the farming you want without bothering anyone.

Step 2: Go Frost

You can do this as any other spec, but this way makes it ten times easier, and ten times safer. Having Squirtle pull at 45 yards is better than you pulling at 36 yards.

Step 3: Find the Right Guards

When you zone in, you will see guards positioned in three areas of the room, with waves of adds running at them every so often. Check which side the guards kill their mob faster.

In my opinion, you want to find the guards with the two Death Knights, usually on the left side of the room if you are looking towards the first boss. They seem to pick up the mobs faster, and hold aggro better. Position yourself with the guards directly between you and the two mobs.

Step 4: The Pull

Wait for when a wave of adds attack, and are killed, then get ready to pull. Stand back, target the mob closest to your side, and send Squirtle to attack.

Your Water Elemental will be pulling while standing right where the guards are. Say goodbye to Squirtle, he won’t survive what is going to happen next.

Step 5: Kill the Adds

Both mobs will aggro, and will run at Squirtle. Sadly, Squirtle will not make it. Once he dies, both mobs will turn and attack one of the guards right where Squirtle died. If not, just simply use Invisibility before they get to you.

Make sure the guard has aggro on BOTH mobs before you start attacking. You don’t want to proc a buff and have the other mob run at you and kill you. Attack and kill the mob that the guard is attacking, then move on to the next one.

On 10 man, the one guard can easily solo the two mobs without needing much help, but on 25 man, he will die and the adds will come after you if you don’t help him kill the adds.

Step 6: ????

Step 7: Profit

Gain reputation with Ashen Verdict, and collect your loot. On 10 man, you will get around 1 gold per pull, on 25 man, you get around 2.5 gold per pull.

Yes, the trash does drop greens and epics! I personally haven’t had any epics drop yet, but had a couple of greens drop for me. Plus the epics are Bind on Equipped!

Here is a list of epics the trash can drop:

Remember again, you can only pull the first two mobs, and will have to zone out and reset the instance before doing it again. You can only reset the instance five times an hour, before you are locked out of instances.

Not a fast way to farm rep, but if you are lucky enough to have an epic drop, it will be way worth the troubles. Along with the rings you can get with rep, there is a vendor that sells trade recipes for various professions.

Happy farming! Good luck on epic drops!Related Posts:

Honored With Bloodsail Buccaneers

Tuna — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:41:08 +0000

First roadblock on my road to the Insane in the Membrane Achievement is now complete. I am now Honored with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. My advice for you if you are doing this: Bring a Friend.

Step 1: Check “At War”

Go into your Reputation tab, and look for the Steamwheedle Cartel. Go to each Goblin faction and check off, “At War”. This will allow you to attack the Goblins, and start gaining rep with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.

Make sure you have done all you want to do quest-wise with Booty Bay, Gadgetzan, Ratchet, and Everlook- because once you’re hated with these factions, you won’t be able to step foot in any of these towns without putting up a fight. This includes taking Flight Paths into the town.

Step 2: Slaughter the Goblins

I recommend going to Booty Bay. There is more Goblins to kill, and plenty of PvP action if you are up to it. Again, bring a friend who is willing to rep with you. It makes things a whole lot easier, and less boring. Kill every NPC in sight.

Start from the entrance into Booty Bay. Make your way through the tunnel killing all the guards you see. Once you hit the first fork in the road, make a left turn towards the Blacksmith NPC. Kill him too. Each Guard will award you 25 Bloodsail Rep, while every other NPC will award you with 5 Rep. Just kill all NPCs you find. It adds up.

Once you make it pass the Blacksmith house, keep taking that path until you see the Engineering NPC standing in his house. Kill all the Guards and NPCs around this house, then jump down to the bottom floor. Start clearing your way towards the docks where the boats come in.

On your way to the boat, make sure you stop by the house on the right. The house is full of NPCs and will draw the attention of a few Guards. Once this room is cleared out, clear out all the NPCs at the docks.

Once the docks are cleared, go back towards the entrance. The NPCs near the entrance and the Blacksmith area should already have respawned. Make your way through the town again.

My description might be hard to follow, so I’ll try to get pictures of the route I took sometime soon.

Step 3: Yaaarr!

There are three quests you can pick up once you hit Friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.

Avast Ye, Scallywag
Dressing the Part
Avast Ye, Admiral!(hated with all Goblin Factions)

You should be Honored or close to Honored, with the Bloodsail Buccaneers by the time you turn in all these quests.

You will also now have all the clothing to dress the part of a Bloodsail Pirate, including an Admiral’s Hat which you can use to summon your very own Pirate!

Not only that, you’ll have completed the Avast Ye, Admiral Achievement, and got yourself a new title! I am now Bloodsail Admiral Utada.

Next step, repairing my reputation with the Steamwheedle Cartel without hurting my new found Bloodsail Buccaneer rep.

Insane in the Membrane

Tuna — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:57:36 +0000

I decided to walk down a long, expensive, and painful path. The path where at the end of the journey, I will be labeled as “Insane”. That is IF I manage to make it to the end. I’m going for one of the feats of strength, Insane in the Membrane.

Image from Blizzard’s Fanart Section

I already have the Exalted Achievement done, so reping with a few more factions shouldn’t be a problem right? Wrong. This is much much worst…

Here is the list of factions I now need rep for:

Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers
Exalted with Everlook
Exalted with Ratchet
Exalted with Ravenholdt
Exalted with Booty Bay
Exalted with Gadgetzan
Exalted with Darkmoon Faire
Exalted with Shen’dralar

Bloodsail Buccaneers

I’ve always wanted to get the achievement for aligning myself with the Bloodsail Pirates for the outfit and title (Bloodsail Admiral), but now I have extra motivation to do it! Only problem is, the Steamwheedle Cartel won’t be too happy with me.

This should be the easiest faction to grind. Just kill Goblins. Perfect time to do it too since Blizzard just recently announced that Goblins will be the Horde’s new race. For the Alliance!

Steamwheedle Cartel

The next step I will be taking is to rep up with the four Goblin Cities. To do that, I would need to kill pirates without lowering my Bloodsail Rep, since the achievement is to have all these faction rep AT THE SAME TIME.

So reading up on WoWHead, I found some pirates I could farm in Tanaris that won’t lower my Bloodsail rep. Another way to rep up with all the Goblin Cities is to enter Dire Maul and to free a Goblin named Knot.

Going into Dire Maul will also help me with the next faction I’ll be grinding.

Shen’dralar

The next faction will be pretty tough to grind. Only way I can rep up with them is by turning in Librams for 500 rep a turn in. Librams are a rare drop in Dire Maul, or can be found on the AH ranging from 5g to 50g. I’ve been dropping by the AH everyday to pick up any cheap Librams I can find.

The most expensive item during the rep process however, is the [Pristine Black Diamond], which is needed for every Libram turn in.

Ravenholdt

This Rogue faction will be tough since I don’t have a Rogue alt to help me farm [Heavy Junkboxes]. From Neutral to Revered, I will just need to kill Syndicate NPCs. That should be really easy as a Mage.

For the rest, I am going to need 1790 total Heavy Junkboxes to go from Revered to Exalted. If you’re a bored Rogue on Ner’zhul, hook it up!

Darkmoon Faire

The last faction will be very very expensive. I will need to farm/purchase a few items to turn in, until I hit Honored. From Honored to Exalted, I will have to turn in Decks. Being an Inscriptionist will help, but it will still be an expensive faction grind.

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I have a long road ahead of me, so wish me luck! And I wish anyone else who is crazy enough to go after this achievement the best of luck too!Related Posts:

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Hobbes Has Been Tamed

Tuna — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:44 +0000

BRK may have stepped down from his hunter blog to let his brain run free, but his faithful pet Hobbes has other plans. He will still continue his adventures in Azeroth, not as a faithful pet, but now as faithful steed.

I’ve been revered with the Wintersaber Trainers since before Wrath hit, but could never keep myself awake for more than 2 runs through the quests at a time. It was torture to rep, even with Diplomacy (I’m SO glad I’m human).

It takes me around 30 minutes to do one run at the quests (3 quests total), and it yields me 935 rep as a human. The drop rate for one of the quests is horrible, and the location for the other two quests are so far apart that it requires a lot of travel time.

It is worst when there are other players doing the same rep grind. The two quests where you need to kill a certain number of mobs is hard to complete when they have already been cleared out. You find yourself waiting for them to respawn most of the time.

It was a pain, but I’m glad it’s over with. I can’t say that it was worth all the trouble, but its nice to have something that makes you stand out from the rest of the players. Not only did I get my [Reins of the Winterspring Frostsaber], but I got the “40 Exalted Reputations” Achievement too! That gave me a new title: Utada the Exalted.

If you are planning on getting the wintersaber mount, then you might as well rep up with the Timbermaw Hold faction as well. The mobs that you kill for the Wintersaber rep, will also drop items that will yield rep for the Timbermaw Hold as well. Might as well get a fury bear friend out of it too!

A Few Goals Completed Before Wrath

Tuna — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:21:42 +0000

I sure did accomplish a lot of stuff that I’ve put off when I realized Wrath of the Lich King was being released today. While everyone was out stockpiling mats for their professions, and doing dailies to save up gold the day before, I am finishing up some of the few goals I have set for myself.

Goal 1: Level Tuanass to 60

Remember that goofy looking Tauren from Halloween? With the Refer-a-Friend promotion running out of time soon, me and my friend decided to go back and level up some characters. Tuanass was my next target. And by “leveling” I meant have a level 70 Warrior run us through instances many many times.

The last instance we ran was a full run of Stratholme, and that took us from level 56 to 60 in a full clear and turning in a couple of quests. No Baron Mount still. Tuanass is Oomkin Spec’d, and is very fun to play.

Goal 2: Level Ayuki to 60

Remember that Mage I created to give free levels to after I got my Paladin to 60? Well she went from level 10 to 39 last time. When Tuanass hit 60, I had more free levels to give, and took her all the way to level 60!

New personal record! Leveled from 1 to 60 in less than six hours! Ayuki is another Frosty, of course.

Goal 3: Get Exaulted with Timbermaw Hold

Well this I could have gotten a long time ago, but I held off on it because I was also doing Wintersaber Trainer rep. Since you have to kill Furbolgs in Winterspring, you could just keep collecting the [Winterfall Spirit Beads] and kill two birds with one stone.

I gave up on Wintersaber rep (for now) and decided to hand in all the beads I have collected so far. Turns out that after I turned in all the beads, I was two turn-ins shy of Exaulted, so after 10 minutes of farming later, I haz exaulted.

After hitting Exaulted, you are then given a quest to defeat some demon. Upon completing the quest, you are given a trinket and a quest to turn-in to the King of Ironforge, Magni Brozebeard. Bronzebeard then tells everyone in Ironforge how much time you wasted by farming rep.

New Title, and new Pet. Utada the Diplomat, and my [Defender of the Timbermaw].Related Posts:

One Down, Nine More to Go

Too Many Factions

Tuna — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:18:50 +0000

There are mana different Factions throughout Azeroth and Outlands, which you could rep up with to obtain special gear, recipes, potions, tabards, enchants, and even mounts. The best items are usually obtainable when you reach Exalted with the faction, but to do that, it could be very time consuming, and very boring.

“Reputation is very similar to experience. Reputation is divided into a number of different levels for which players must earn reputation points to progress through. Higher reputation levels generally require more points than the previous level to progress. The exception is hated, which spans a very large number of reputation points. Reputation points, just like experience points, are gained through quests and killing various mobs.” – wowwiki.com

I find myself repping up with any faction that I can whenever I have nothing else to do, or when I need a change in scenery. You can only run so many BG’s until you become sick of it, even if you are X amount of honor away from getting your next bracer.

At first it was, “Ooh X faction has a nice enchant available at exalted, must rep!”. Then it was, “I need to collect all of the Alliance mounts!”. Now I have become obsessed and will just rep up with any faction just to be exalted. I didn’t even care if there was nothing I would gain from it.

Next on my list… Wintersaber Trainers!

I know I am not the only one. I’ve seen people spend hundreds of gold to rep up with Sporegarr just for the pet you can buy. Or when back to EPL just to rep up with Argent Dawn again just for sh!ts and giggles. I haven’t done this yet, but I kind of want to. I know some people who have repped up with Bloodsail Buccaneers (declaring war on the Steamwheedle Cartle in the process) just so they could get a pirate hat that can summon a parrot!

I don’t think I will be doing that anytime soon (I like being able to enter the goblin cities without getting attacked), but I am repping up with a faction which also requires a ton of time. The Wintersaber Trainers. Why? To get my very own Hobbes mount! Now this rep grind has been boring me to tears, and I can only do at MOST, the repeatable quest about twice before I start smashing my head on the keyboard.

Also doing these repeatable quest, I get drops from the Furbolgs I kill that can be used for the Timbermaw Hold faction. So I am killing two birds with one stone. Soon (hopefully) you will see me riding around on my Wintersaber mount, and summoning Furbolgs to fight for me.

Exalted with too many factions…

Just another thing in WoW for me to waste more time on. I’m sure in WotLK there will be many more factions to rep with, and I am sure I will be trying to get Exalted with all of them too! Good thing I picked the race with the best PvE racial (imo), the Human race. Diplomacy FTW!

Patch 2.4 – Overview

Tuna — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:40:00 +0000

Here is an Overview of some of the stuff on PTR for Patch 2.4. I will update this post with new stuff as I get more information so you can just look to one place to find all you need for the upcoming patch. – updated 3/6/2008

The Official 2.4 Patch Notes has been updated to reflect the current PTR build. You can take a look at them HERE. – updated 3/8/2008

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